Seattle AttractionsMuseums and Exhibits

Art Access. PO
Box 4163, Seattle, WA 98194. Phone: 206-855-9668; Fax: 206-855-7854.
Online version of the magazine which presents original art, poetry, reviews
and literature, and provides monthly listings for the visual arts, dance,
music and theater. A selection is available on their web site.

The
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
This is part of the University of Washington's web site, and the
Burke Museum is located on the campus at 17th
Avenue NE and NE 45th Street, Seattle, WA 98195. Phone: 206-543-5590. The
Museum contains nationally ranked collections in anthropology, geology and
zoology, totaling over 3 million specimens.

Center for Wooden Boats
Small craft museum with more than 100 historically significant boats.
Visitors encounter a relaxed atmosphere of 1900's-style floating buildings
and landscaping. Amble along the docks and look at on-the-water exhibits and
boats on the docks or stop and chat with one of many volunteers. A rental
fleet classically built wooden rowboats and sailboats is available to the
public year-round for use on Lake Union. There is no admission charge.

Charles and Emma Frye
Art Museum. 704 Terry Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104. Phone: 206-622-9250.
E-mail
Owners of a prosperous food processing business at the turn of the century,
Charles and Emma were able to travel to Europe and collect art. Emma died in
1934. They had no children and Charles spent his last years alone. In his
will, Charles Frye provided for the creation of a free public art museum to
house and display his beloved collections.

Children's
Museum. 305 Harrison Street, Seattle, WA 98109. Phone: 206-441-1768;
Fax: 206-448-0910.Located on the first level of Center House at the Seattle Center near
the Space Needle, Monorail and Experience Music Project.

Emerald City Fine Art
Features the work of more than 30 artists including Alexandra Nechita and
Yuroz. Situated in downtown Seattle's historic Pioneer Square.

Experience Music
Project (EMP) / Science Fiction Museum (SFM). Seattle Center Campus, 325
5th Avenue N, Seattle, WA 98109. Phone: 206-770-2700; Toll-free:
1-877-367-7361.
E-mail
Mail: EMP Headquarters, 2901 Third Avenue, #400, Seattle, WA 98121.
The $240-million Experience Music Project, spear-headed by Microsoft
cofounder and multibillionaire Paul Allen, is a museum of American popular
music housed in the controversial architecture of Frank Gehry near the
Seattle Center and Space Needle. More than a museum, it offers a variety of
hands-on music experiences for people of all ages. A three-day festival June
23-25, 2000 celebrated its grand opening.

Log House
Museum. 3003 61st Avenue SW, Seattle, WA 98116. Phone: 206-938-5293.
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Built circa 1903, The Log House Museum is an authentically renovated log
structure located at 3003 61st Avenue SW, one block off
Alki Beach in West Seattle. The building was built by Gladys and William
Bernard, and was originally the carriage house to the nearby Bernard family
residence, now the Alki Homestead Restaurant.

Medicinal Herb Garden
Located on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle, the Garden
is a resource for herbalists, medics, and botanists. (Part of the National
Network of Libraries of Medicine web site.)

Museum of Flight.
9404 East Marginal Way S, Seattle, WA 98108-4097. Phone: 206-764-5720; Fax:
206-764-5707. E-mail
Features the largest air and space museum on the west coast including
exhibits of 54 airplanes; authentic and in mint condition. In the steel and
glass Great Gallery, dozens of full-size aircraft are seen flying in
formation six stories above. Aircraft exhibits, Museum store and more.

Museum of
History & Industry. Lake Union Park, Seattle, WA. Phone: 206-324-1126.
E-mail
The Museum of History and Industry is a private, non-profit educational
organization dedicated to the collection, preservation and exhibition of
Seattle, King County and Pacific Northwest history. The museum's library and
archives contain 800,000 books, photographs, maps and manuscripts and
handles more than 2,000 research requests each year.

Seattle Art
Museum. 1300 First Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101. Phone: 206-625-8900.
Houses a permanent exhibition of Asian, African and Northwest Coast Native
American art, as well as touring international exhibitions. Note the
post-modern facade designed by Robert Venturi. Web site has information
about its collection, exhibitions, member news, programs events, museum
store and general information.

The Wing Luke Asian
Museum. 719 South King Street, Seattle, WA 98104. Phone: 206-623-5124;
Fax: 206-623-4559.
The Web site of the only pan-Asian American museum in the United States
devoted to the collection, preservation and display of Asian Pacific
American culture, history and art with projects inspired and created by
community members.

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